On frozen super soldiers
Jul. 26th, 2012 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI've read a lot of fanfic where Avengers introduce Steve to pop culture that happened after he went into the ice.
I was reading something about Shakespeare and started to wonder, how much of the culture that happened before he froze is he likely to have seen?
I mean, I haven't seen all the plays, but that's only because I didn't get around to watching all the BBC versions from the library. If you had to wait for someone to actually put on the plays, that could take a bit of a while. But in New York maybe not so long. I have no idea.
And I guess I'm asking an economic question and a question about what was even popular and some other questions too I haven't thought of yet.
Also, I know we love Buffy and Firefly and Star Trek and all of that, but my Cultural Studies course spent years on pop culture barely mentioning them, so I keep getting this urge to make an actual syllabus, with accompanying essays and political notes, to get him caught up on the major cultural arguments of the years he lost, rather than just watching the stuff we actually like.
With his experience of propaganda and interest in art he'd get a lot out of the courses I just did, though he'd probably want more art history and much less literature.
I spent sixteen hours asleep today and woke up with a head full of this and a speech I've been wanting to give Clint that I just realised I could put in my OC's mouth if I grab a few bits of X2 and marysue the hell out of her. I think at this point the only thing stopping me writing is the whole same set of things that has had me not writing for a whole year now. The idea is solid and enough about the canon characters I think it should work as a fanfic.
I was reading something about Shakespeare and started to wonder, how much of the culture that happened before he froze is he likely to have seen?
I mean, I haven't seen all the plays, but that's only because I didn't get around to watching all the BBC versions from the library. If you had to wait for someone to actually put on the plays, that could take a bit of a while. But in New York maybe not so long. I have no idea.
And I guess I'm asking an economic question and a question about what was even popular and some other questions too I haven't thought of yet.
Also, I know we love Buffy and Firefly and Star Trek and all of that, but my Cultural Studies course spent years on pop culture barely mentioning them, so I keep getting this urge to make an actual syllabus, with accompanying essays and political notes, to get him caught up on the major cultural arguments of the years he lost, rather than just watching the stuff we actually like.
With his experience of propaganda and interest in art he'd get a lot out of the courses I just did, though he'd probably want more art history and much less literature.
I spent sixteen hours asleep today and woke up with a head full of this and a speech I've been wanting to give Clint that I just realised I could put in my OC's mouth if I grab a few bits of X2 and marysue the hell out of her. I think at this point the only thing stopping me writing is the whole same set of things that has had me not writing for a whole year now. The idea is solid and enough about the canon characters I think it should work as a fanfic.
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:24 pm (UTC)Like in the movie, Steve was so damm excited when someone referenced The Wizard of Oz. Because he knew what the hell they were talking about.
And this probably happens after the conversation about what is now considered horribly racist/sexist/ableist and the top hits of the history of the past 70 years.